Lindsey Boldt is a poet, playwright, editor, and teacher. She is the author of the books Overboard and Weirding, and several chapbooks including Titties for Lindsey and There Are No Cops in America & The Streets Are Paved w/ Cheese. Her work playfully examines questions of expanded and altered human and non-human perception, the pleasures and pains of embodiment, and the absurd. She is currently working on a project about The Fool as cross-cultural archetype and source of radical rebellion and resilience. She is the editorial director of Nightboat Books and has taught poetry workshops in Bay Area public schools, independent workshops on oracular poetry, folk magic, plant medicine, and Poets Theater. Her third book, Tripper, will be published by City Lights Books in 2027.